Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-14
IN THE BATH ROOM.
a CLEAN OLD CUSTOM HANDED
DOWN FROM ANTIQUITY.

DOWN FROM ANTIQUITY.
TIE Various Styles OF Baths. Their His
tory and charaeteristics-rhs Prini-
tive B~ath-rarkish and Russian BATHS.
ne Mud Bath.
The bath IL as old as the hills. 1t comes
down from the most remote antiquity.
fhe Egyptians used to battle in the Nile.
The Hebrews made bathing compulsory
By law, and the Mohammedans and Hin
docs enforce 1t as q duty Of religion.
Public baths were among the public insti-
tutions of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks
and Romans. II Pharaoh's lovely
daughter hadn't gone bathing In the Nile
Moses might never have been discovered
n the bullrushes. II Nausicaa and her
faiy companions had not bathed thefhr
selves in the waters Of the sea the ship
wrecked Ulysses might never have been
rescued. So II will be seen that the bath
10 hoary, venerable and patriarchal.
But the primitive bath was o simple
process compared with the elaborate bath
Of modern times. II was merely o
plunge into the limpid water Of some
lowing stream. Now the bath is a scien-
ttAc process, presided over by competent
attendants and regulated by the watch
and the thermometer. The bath most
popular with the American people, bar
ring, of course, the domestic tub, is the
Turkish bath. Why 1t is called Turk
ish" surpasseth all understanding. 1t Ii
probably, though, because the Turks re-
cline in a most luxuriant bath in perfumed
water, while about the edges of the mar
BILE basin grow fragrant flowers and bloom
ing rose trees, filing the apartment with
their ravishing scent. The Turkish bath
was first introduced into England about
the middle Of the SOS by q nobleman,
David Urquhart by name, who had re-
oeived the impression in the Orient. This
country adopted the Turkish bath about
twenty years ago.
TAKING A TURKISH BATH.
Have you ever taken a Turkish BATH
Mo- Then, in The language Of Edwin
Forrest, you shave never risen TO the dig
nifty of being personally clean.n
When you 60 to a Turkish bath house
you first enter the Office, where you regis
ter, deposit your valuables and receive o
check for them. Then you pass into the
muctaly. ''lluctaly" must be the Turk
for cool room. At any rate muctaly Is the
cool room. In one Of the numerous COM
partments of this apartment you disrobe
and invest yourself in o bathing garment,
then you pass into the warm room, the
tepidanum, they call it, where you en-
counter a temperature Of 100 to 140 degs.
Fahrenheit. Here you recline on a couch
until the perspiration is freely started.
When the skin has become sufficiently
soft and moist-tbe attendant frequently
passes his hand over the body to ascertain
IL it has arrived at the proper state-you
are ushered into the hot room, which Is
plain English for the calidanum, as tho
n 40 degs. higher than in the warm room.
In the hot room the attendants lay yot
upon . heated marble slab, and tho
p~erspiration becomes more and moro pro-
fuse, while the attendant thoroughly
manipulates the body with q towel. From
this room you pass into q still hotter hot
room, where the temperature IL 220 to go
degrees. You perspirc o few moro t'r1cJ
in this room, when you are conducted into
the shampooing room, where enough tcpid
water h sprinkled over you to remove tho
perspirauon. Tnen you are stretcned q
upon announcer marble slao I'M receivo
announcer manipulation. Tno wln up con-
- IN the atsenaant thoroughly wasninG
tne oody Win . iatner OK soap and Waser.
sprlnNing tne oatner over Win O tepio
pray, ana the oatner taxing o piungn N
me swimming oetn.
n RUSSIAN BATH.
The Russian bath is 30 called because
the Russians from long ago have INDUCED
IN q hot vapor bath. The Russian bath
differs from the Turkish bath in thin
essential particular: In q Russian bath
the room Is filed with hot vapor; in tho
Turkish bath the room il filed with hot
air.
The Russian bath Is attaining popu-
larity with the busy, busting American
people for the reason that it doesn't take
long. A Russian bath can be taken in q
quarter the time that il requires for q
Turkish bath. A comparatively new idea
In baths is the electric bath. This is a
medicated bath prescribed for neuralgia,
orders. The bathers enter . bath tub,
around tne INSIDE Oh wnicn are q number
OI electric DuttOnS. DuTlQQ the OATH q